In Peques and Más this time we bring a interview with Vander Fujisaki, director of SOS Gamers. Before founding SOS Gamers at the end of 2009, he was editor in chief of several online magazines specializing in video games that have already disappeared. In 2000 he worked on Onez.com, a publication of Grupo Arroba, and from 2002 on OcioJoven.com, creating the online magazine OJGames.com that was later sold to Grupo Planeta. Vander Fujisaki has also specialized in pay special attention to children's video games when I worked at OJGames. At that time they had a very successful section called OJ Kids. After the closure of OcioJoven and OJGames, their challenge was to keep up the work they had done so far by publishing in their own online magazines: SOSGamers.com, dedicated to video games and SOSMoviers.com, specialized in film and television. In addition, SOS Gamers has a specific section for children called SOS Kids.
Vander explains that the SOS Kids section was inaugurated due to the lack of support that exists in the specialized magazines of videogames in relation to games aimed at a child audience of ages up to 12 years. There are many videogame magazines, but they are usually focused entirely on an adolescent audience up in age. In SOS Gamer they have as a rule to offer detailed information about both adult video games and those specifically for children, treating them all with professional vision and rigor.
The contents of SOS Kids can also be read by children and parents. Vander says that the rule they define to include a game in the section is that it is really aimed at children. They do not allow any content that is of a universal type to be published, but it has to be specifically for a children's audience. For example, a football video game may be recommended for all audiences and may not be considered specific for SOS Kids. They do consider their own games based on children's series, games that have a remarkable audience for children, such as Dora the Explorer games, Inazuma Eleven, Monster High or the Disney Princesses. These are usually games that are forgotten in videogame magazines and also deserve to be provided with an informative follow-up, since their quality can be very high in many cases.
In SOS Kids they divide the contents of the section into different sections. In the part of articles they publish reports and analysis on children's games. Vander explains that they give a lot of value to the analysis of children's games because they are a type of article that is not usually published in specialized videogames magazines. And it is that in these publications normally or not these games are analyzed or when it is done they are usually criticized as if they were aimed at an adult audience, which is undoubtedly an error.
In the writing of SOS Gamers they test and value these games taking into account the audience they are aimed at, thinking about the fun that will provide a child and if part of some recommended values for the smallest of the house. Many of these games can bore an adult player or be very easy for them, but you have to understand that they are aimed at children and that they have different needs and interests than those of other players. In SOS Gamers they are very proud to be the only magazine specialized in videogames in Spain that, for example, has analyzed the videogames of Dora the Explorer, Lalaloopsy dolls and many other brands for children.
In the Galleries section, images of the video games for children we are talking about are published, while in News, Tricks and Videos they publish specific information and content. In news they inform parents and the children themselves of the latest interesting related to the most fashionable children's video games, commenting on future releases, not only of consoles and computers, but also of mobiles. For example, they have published data from new Disney Princess or Monster High games on the same day they have been announced in the United States, to keep readers very well informed. They also offer recommendations and other information of interest, such as available promotions and information on events in which they can participate.
In SOS Kids, readers are treated, no matter how young they are, like any other reader. They inform them of the news so that they understand and know the latest news and are not limited to the information that is known about the launches of Spain, but also tell them about the games that may interest them and that are released in other countries, such as United States and Japan. In SOS Kids they contribute to form a type of reader so that when he grows up he will continue to have interest and enthusiasm for accessing the general news of SOS Gamers feeling at ease with the contents he is finding.
In SOS Kids they are pending the requests of the readers, and thus they have valued the games of the most fashionable brands, such as the Skylanders, Ben 10 or Barbie in addition to that they also include buying advice. Vander Fujisaki sent us links to a lot of games I am sure that many reading parents and players would like to review as a family:
We give you the thanks to Vander Fujisaki for all the information he has explained to us about the publication he directs. We take this opportunity to congratulate you for making with great affection, respect and passion content for SOS Kids by also providing parents with all the necessary information to know the details of video games and thus be able to share knowledge and hobby with our children.
